Text & Photos © M. Heiß The rush of nature and bird friends from the Bird Camp Besh Barmag ebbed away and after the wonderful dinner in Baku Pia and I drove back to the bottleneck area. We counted together for the next 1,5 days and after she left to do migration counts in Batumi… Continue reading Last days at Besh Barmag in autumn 2016
Another summary of the camp on BirdLife.org http://www.birdlife.org/europe-and-central-asia/news/bird-camp-besh-2016-%E2%80%93-engaging-young-people-conservation-azerbaijan
Participants of the camp © Harald Ris During 16-19 September the Bird Camp Besh Barmag was arranged at the watchpoint areas of the bottleneck. It was a joint arrangement by Nature Friends Azerbaijan, SOF BirdLife (the Swedish BirdLife partner) and the AOS (Azerbaijan Ornithological Society, the Azeri BirdLife partner). The camp was sponsored by BirdLife… Continue reading Bird Camp Besh Barmag 2016
New bird counting data from Besh Barmag available on Trektellen. http://www.trektellen.nl/count/view/1533/20160911
A detailed report from the spring trip is now online available. It is in Swedish but has a species list in English, Swedish and Latin. http://www.avifauna.se/avifauna/rapporter-arkiv/reserapporter/ Videos from the trip can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/user/Tomas06560656/videos
text by Tomas Haraldsson and Kai Gauger, photos by Niklas Andersson and Kai Gauger Swedish birds & nature tour operator AviFauna did a successful tour in Azerbaijan 6-14 May, planned and lead by Tomas Haraldsson together with Kai Gauger. In the group were 12 Swedes, one Dane and three German birders and the logistics and… Continue reading spring trip with Nakhchivan by Avifauna
Text © Tomas Axén Haraldsson Photos © Andreas Sandberg Four Swedish birders visited Azerbaijan 17-24 April 2016, focusing on the migration at Besh Barmag and two days in the Greater Caucasus. I helped them with planning, species and contacts. Their trip was overall successful but with some small troubles with rangers in Laza (not the… Continue reading Trip summary 16-24 April 2016
A post by Tomas Axén Haraldsson on the OSME website. Enjoy reading! http://osme.org/content/azerbaijan-interlude-young-naturalists
A very detailed and excellent report of the bird migration count at Besh Barmag in October 2015 is now online available: Azerbaijan 25-30 October 2015 Enjoy reading!
Text © Tomas Axén Haraldsson Photos © Emil Lundahl . A Swedish birding group monitored the spectacular migration at Besh Barmag for a few days during the week 25-30 October. The group was from the youth committee of Swedish BirdLife on an initiative and leadership by me. We also met up with a local NGO,… Continue reading Autumn migration at Besh Barmag
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